This video was recorded at Code Elixir LDN 18: http://bit.ly/2vxJuxL Get involved in Code Sync's next Elixir conference: http://bit.ly/2Mcm4aS --- A SHOT OF ABSINTHE: FROM ZERO TO GRAPHQL IN 40 MINUTES by Sam Davies THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS: Scaling Elixir Teams TALK LEVEL: Beginner ABSTRACT What is GraphQL? Why should you care about it? What's the difference between GraphQL and REST? How can you use GraphQL with Elixir? Sam covers the answers to these questions and more in this introduction to GraphQL, and best practices for using it with Elixir. Read the full abstract: http://bit.ly/2MBNaF6 --- THE SPEAKER - SAM DAVIES Elixir core contributor at Nested Sam has been involved in the Elixir community since early 2017 and has been championing it's use at Nested, leading a growing team of engineers to build a new breed of world-class estate agency software, with Elixir as the secret sauce. A reformed physicist, Sam started his career as a Ruby consultant. In a previous life, he has worked as a senior Rails consultant helping Factual bring their flagship Geopulse suite up to date with the latest best practices, and co-founded a startup called ProGolfMe, which allows golfers to get online lessons from a qualified coach. He was drawn to Elixir because of it's beginner-friendliness and the power of the underlying Erlang VM and now spends his day-to-day working with Elixir and React, and contributing to open source projects such as Elixir core and the Rihanna job queueing library. More on Sam Davies: http://bit.ly/2MBNaF6 --- CODE SYNC & CODE ELIXIR LDN 18 Website: www.codesync.global Twitter: www.twitter.com/CodeElixirIO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CodeSyncGlobal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-sync/ Mail: info at codesync.global